Philip Meyer;350657 Wrote: > It's no secret that in Windows you can change the location of any > special folder. All information is in the registry, but there are many > ways that the default Windows configuration can be changed, rather than > edit the registry. > > This includes Documents & Settings, My Documents, My Music, Windows > install folder, etc. > > SC will simply get the underlying path that is pointed to by the > special "My Music" folder. > > > I changed a lot of those paths in my PC. I think I initially changed > My Music to point to a different folder because of WMP or iTunes, which > insisted on writing to that folder (couldn't change one of those apps to > write its files elsewhere). > > WMP had a habbit of finding album artwork and modifying folder.jpg > files and making them hidden system files. This caused me to lose > better quality images with silly thumbnails from time to time. > > So I changed My Music to point to another folder, and keep my real > music files on another hard disk partition, where I believe it is > safer. I configure all of my music apps to read from that path rather > than rely on "My Music". > > I don't think I'm alone in this configuration - it's quite common for > users to keep their music outside of "My Music".
Maybe not an official secret, but I would certainly not expect it to be widely known and even less widely changed. I'd certainly expect more people to have their music library where it is NOT pointing, anyway. -- dwilliams01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dwilliams01's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10988 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53718 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
